Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department announced the approval of 13 applications for funding support on the trial of green and innovative transport technologies under the Pilot Green Transport Fund.

Zhang Guangrong, the vice governor of Qinghai province, has disclosed to local media that a special team has been set up in the province to monitor the use of relief funds donated for the Yushu earthquake.

Caring About the Next Generation College Student Development Fund, one of China's first NGO-funded institutions dedicated to the development of college students, has been formally unveiled in Beijing.

The Intermediate Peoples' Court of Kunming has announced that in conjunction with Kunming Municipal Environment Department it will set up a fund to defray the costs of lawsuits over environmental public welfare issues.

What is reported to be China's first private equity fund focused on the country's low carbon economy, the ZheShang Nuohai Low Carbon Fund, has been formally established.

To promote development of water saving and water environmental protection, toilet-maker Toto (China) Co., Ltd has set up Toto Water Environment Special Fund together with China Environmental Protection Foundation in Beijing.

China's National Audit Office released the first "Wenchuan Earthquake Relief Supplies Auditing Result Bulletin" in which it exposed illegal situations arising from donations made to the recent disaster in Sichuan.